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  • One News Tonight
Date Broadcast
  • Monday 2 July 2012
Start Time
  • 22 : 25
Finish Time
  • 22 : 55
Duration
  • 30:00
Channel
  • TV One
Broadcaster
  • Television New Zealand
Programme Description
  • The nation's leading team of journalists brings viewers the latest news and sport, plus the most comprehensive weather report.
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  • Chapman Archive
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  • English
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Live Broadcast
  • Yes
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  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
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  • News
It's the first time, perhaps, that a wife has given so much detailed evidence. The month-long trial revolves around Ewen Macdonald, who stands accused of gunning down his brother-in-law Scott Guy on his driveway almost two years ago. Arriving at court for the final stages were Scott Guy's family. Using a side entrance, the accused's parents, Kerry and Marlene. Also in attendance, members of Kylee Guy's family. It's a horrible situation they're in, but your focus in the jury room cannot be about achieving closure for them or wanting to give an answer. What this case is, and all it is, is an allegation that Mr Macdonald killed Mr Guy. > And it's up to the Crown to prove that allegation beyond reasonable doubt Beyond reasonable doubt is more than thinking it's likely or it's probable that Mr Macdonald did it. > That is not enough. > Instead, the jury, down to 11 after one was excused on the first day, were told they had to be sure, Justice France also told the jury they were to give no weight to the fact Ewen Macdonald did not take the stand. Basically, he said, 'This is a hard job. Everybody knows it's a hard job. 'You've seen the public come in here and have a good look at what's going on. 'Have the confidence to make a decision.' The Crown says Ewen Macdonald trapped Scott Guy by closing the gates at the end of his driveway. The defence raising the possibility he was shot by a burglar he caught on the property stealing Labrador puppies. You'd be entitled to ask why a burglar, or perhaps someone stealing the puppies, would want to force a confrontation with Mr Guy by shutting the gate. His final advice to the jurors to not be afraid from giving a verdict. Daniel Faitaua, ONE News. It's been an emotional day for families of victims and those giving evidence into the collapse of the CTV building in the Christchurch quake. The building's manager has come under fire for taking the Green sticker as an assurance the building was safe. Lisa Davies reports. Sorry. A tough day for families... So sorry. ...watching the man responsible for the CTV building's safety on the stand. Angry, very angry. The families' lawyer summing up those feelings. Some of the families feel that you could and should have done more to find out whether the building was safe to occupy. John Drew choking up under the pressure of giving evidence. I never, for a minute, had any thought that the building might be in risk of collapse. Since February 22nd I have felt a huge sense of responsibility, and I am forever questioning what might have been done differently. The commission told he failed to act on a recommendation made by an engineer in September 2010. It was delivered with no urgency at all. The engineer's report requesting a close inspection of the crucial sheer wall and a damaged block wall. And you could actually see daylight through it. But John Drew says the building's green sticker made him think it was safe. And there was no reason to, um, doubt otherwise. In four hours on the stand, he agreed he could have done more to ensure the safety of the building. < You didn't do everything you could have done to ensure the safety of those who occupied the building. Yeah, I could have done those things. Addressing the families attending today's hearing directly. If I might just pass on my condolences to the families and, uh, friends who lost their life. Those families today focusing on how this disaster could have been averted. Nobody should have been in that building since September. But they were, and five months later, 115 people lost their lives here. Drug users on a welfare benefit could soon found themselves losing more than their memory. The government is planning to take a hard line on drug testing beneficiaries, with those who test positive losing their benefit. But as Megan Martin reports, not everyone is thrilled by the idea. Dangerous machinery, teams of workers, tough work ` there's good reason industries like this have strict drug-testing policies. No contractor wants workers that are running million-dollar machines whose performance is affected by alcohol or drugs. John Key has confirmed the Government will introduce drug testing for people on the new job-seeking benefit. Those that fail the test forfeit the allowance. We are all meant to sit back and say, 'Well, that's fine, 'we'll just carrying on paying your benefit, and everything's fine.' Well, I don't think that's acceptable to the hard-working Kiwis who are paying for that benefit. Deputy Prime Minister Bill English says there are employers here in his electorate with jobs on offer who can't employ some young people because they simply won't pass the drug test. We made a commitment to, uh, put` ha-having a policy where people who are meant to be available for work should be in the position where they can pass a drug test. Some employers are applauding the move. Very supportive of it. It's taken a long time coming. We've been asking for it for years. Bill English's constituents have mixed opinions. Yeah, nah, I don't have anything against it. Even jobseekers shouldn't have to give up their personal life for something that someone else wants. We need people in the workforce that are drug-free. While the union says it's beneficiary bashing. One of the things we know is that work is good for people and people in work are much healthier and less likely to take drugs. Um, so this actually also has a very negative impact on moving people into employment. The legislation's due to be heard in Parliament by the end of the year. For some,... It will help our contractors a lot. ...the sooner the better. Megan Martin, ONE News. Two teenagers are in Dunedin Hospital with serious burns, after an LPG bottle exploded while the pair was sniffing gas. Emergency services say the 17- and 18-year-olds were inhaling the contents of a 9kg bottle at a house in Mosgiel, when it blew up. One of the teenagers is in a critical condition. Police are searching for another man seen leaving the house before the blaze broke out. Will hitting people in the pocket stop them hitting the bottle quite so hard? That's the thinking behind a Labour Party bid to put a minimum price on alcohol to curb binge drinking. But the liquor industry says it will only succeed in making drinking more expensive for everyone. Political reporter Michael Parkin has the details. We're getting too drunk for too little ` that's Labour's argument as it pushes for the Government to introduce a minimum price for alcohol. It's very easy for, particularly, uh, young women, to pre-load with cheap wine from the supermarkets and then go out on the town and get drunker and drunker. The Law Commission says one standard drink of wine, beer or spirits can be bought in this country for as little as 60c. But Charles Chauvel says Labour's got the numbers to add a clause to the Alcohol Reform Bill. That clause would give the Justice Minister the power to set a minimum price for a drink ` something a Labour government would do. If instead of being able to buy a bottle of cheap wine for $6 from the supermarket, a minimum-pricing regime puts that up to $12, $13 $14, uh, then it's much harder people to lay their hands on cheap booze. Ministry Of Justice officials will tomorrow meet with liquor-industry representatives, who say a minimum price won't just affect the binge drinkers buying budget booze. If you set a minimum price, then obviously, people who want to have a premium position for their wine, for example, may want to put a little bit more on, you know, so the cost could go up right all the way through the chain. In May, Scotland became the first in Europe to pass a law setting a minimum price for alcohol. England, Wales, Ireland and even Australia are expected to follow suit. Our government's investigating, but is not committing. Go and have a look at Scandinavia ` I remember going over there ` alcohol prices were very expensive; it didn't stop people getting wasted. But it's something the Government may have to swallow, with Labour confident it has the support to get the amendment though in a matter of weeks. Michael Parkin, ONE News. A man's been charged with murder, after a Christchurch woman died in hospital at the weekend, three weeks after a serious assault. Timothy Foley will appear in Christchurch District Court tomorrow, charged with murdering Michelle Mary Lawrence at her Linwood home last month. He had previously been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Every February, Waitangi Day brings protest, celebration and controversy in equal measure. Tonight, the document at the centre of it is set to stir up a hornets' nest seven months early. The Treaty of Waitangi is to be moved to a new home, at a cost of millions to taxpayers. Political reporter Jessica Mutch with the story. This is the Constitutional Room in the Archive NZ building. Right now this central Wellington address is home to the original Treaty of Waitangi as well as other historical documents, but not for long. Next year, the documents will move from here, just a few hundred metres down the road, to here at the National Library, and it will cost nearly $7m. This is a very large sum of money when we already have a room specially constructed to store the Treaty. The Government tells us this was a zero budget. But the minister says it's money well spent. Well, it's a wonderful opportunity to, uh, capitalise on the new National Library and to take the documents out of the dark, put them on a pedestal so that heaps of people round the country can see them. Briefing papers show to keep the documents where they are and upgrade the Constitutional Room, it could cost up to $1.9m. Building a new room in the National Library and moving the documents there will cost $6.7m. This is footage from 1991, when the Constitutional Room was first opened. To preserve the documents, it was designed to be cool and dark, but the minister says technology has moved on. Labour's nervous the Government is inching closer to closing the Archive NZ building altogether. I suspect what lies behind this is that the Government plans to stop using the Archives NZ facility, uh, in Wellington. I think that would be a mistake. But the minister is emphatic. No, we're not. No decisions have been made yet on what the surplus space created here will be used for, but by next year these precious documents will have a new home. Jessica Mutch, ONE News. A South Island thrill seeker is thanking his lucky stars, after being stuck on a Southern Alps mountainside for most of a freezing night. The 22-year-old had been speed flying with a fabric wing, like in this video, at the Temple Basin Ski Field, when he became trapped below power lines. Police say rescue teams picked up the injured man just after 4 o'clock this morning. He was airlifted to Greymouth Hospital with suspected concussion and a damaged thumb. The hard line on greenhouse gas emissions is set to be softened for struggling households. The scheme, to make polluters pay for greenhouse gas they produce, while farmers are also being given more time to lower emissions. Political editor Corin Dann has the story. When the ETS was introduced for energy and transport companies back in 2010, it led to hikes in petrol and power bills. But that was only the half if it because the full impact of the ETS was not due to come in until 2013. That is, until now. Legislation, as it stands, requires the remove of those transition measures from 2013. We now think the measures need to run for longer, given the fragile international economic environment. But while consumers might be insulated at the pump, the decision to keep the ETS in the transition stage will eventually cost the Government $80m. Labour says, in the end, we can't avoid our commitments. I think this is a very bad move for NZ. We've got to address the issues of emissions in NZ at some point. One sector that continues to directly escape the ETS is agriculture, despite livestock being a huge emitter. Under changes announced today, livestock will not now be included in the scheme until after a review is carried out in 2015. Not one country in the world has put a carbon price on biological emissions. The Greens says it sends all the wrong signals. If they don't contribute to this carbon issue, uh, our markets overseas will start to notice. They'll consider the agriculture sector in NZ to be both dirty and a non-contributor. The Government says it can still meet its international climate-change obligations. However, today's changes mean that the chance for NZ to become a global trailblazer appears to have now all but gone. Corin Dann, ONE News. Just ahead, find out why a big bite's been taken from Apple over the iPad. Plus, it's not just for smoothing faces. Aussie doctors discover Botox can be life-changing. And the mudslinging begins in Hollywood's latest high-profile divorce. Nah, I'm good, mate. I'm good. Ohhh. Ohhh. May I help you, sir? Ohhh. May I help you, sir? Hey, bro. I'm Tim. From NZ. I won the, uh... the MasterCard prize, where you get to tour with the All Blacks. Fellas! Oh! Danny C! Oh yeah! Nonu, Nonu, Nonu! Boom! Richie. Bring it in, mate. Register and use your MasterCard before September 15 and you could go on tour with the All Blacks. Good to see ya. Good to see ya. Yeah, you too. So, who am I rooming with? Global software giant Apple has agreed to pay more than $74m to a Chinese company to settle a dispute over the iPad. Proview claimed it owned the rights to the iPad title in the Chinese market after registering it in 2000. But Apple insisted it had acquired the world rights for the name in 2009. The dispute had resulted in Apple's iPads being pulled from the shelves in some parts of China. Across the Tasman, Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has been meeting the Indonesian prime minister for crucial talks on the asylum-seeker crisis. The stand-off between the two countries over the issue will be a big part of discussions between the two leaders, but the Aussie PM insists Indonesia is doing its bit. They have disrupted people smuggling ventures. They have made considerable numbers of arrests of people smugglers. The Australian government is putting pressure on the opposition to help resolve the crisis. But as Julia Gillard slumps in the polls following her introduction of an unpopular carbon tax, opposition leader Tony Abbott isn't expected to cooperate. In a world first, Australian doctors have discovered another breakthrough benefit to the wrinkle-eraser Botox. It's now being used to help people with multiple sclerosis, and the results are life-changing. Channel Nine's Alicia Loxley has more. It's the cosmetic wonder drug Hollywood can't get enough of, but it now turns out Botox can do much more than make wrinkles disappear. I felt human again. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 12 years ago, Anca Chernok is in the two-thirds of patients who suffer debilitating tremors or shaking. But thanks to an Australian trial, this before and after video shows the difference a few Botox injections have made. And we had a lot of our patients that nothing seemed to work, and it's quite a desperate situation. 23 MS patients were involved in the trial, and, after just six weeks, doctors observed a 40% reduction in the severity of shaking, while basic skills like writing improved by 30%. For Andrew White, the Botox injections have meant he's still able to work. My wife, for example, is delighted that I don't smash dishes any more when I'm putting them in the dishwasher. Doctors found the treatment was so effective, just 1ml to 2ml of Botox, that most patients in the trial only needed injections every six months. As for side effects, some patients experienced muscle weakness for about a week, but those heading the trial say they have no concerns about long-term use. The dose that we use is not big. It's really a little more than the treatment you would have for wrinkles. The trial will now be expanded to include 100 patients from Melbourne and Sydney. It's shaping up as one of the nastiest divorces in Hollywood history. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have begun the public mud-slinging while it's rumoured that Holmes is being stalked by the Church of Scientology. Channel Nine's Peter Harvey has the story. On the eve of his 50th birthday, a glimpse of Tom Cruise on the set of his latest movie in Iceland, appropriately called Oblivion, about a man on another planet. His estranged wife, Katie Holmes, has just moved into a $12,000 a month New York apartment with their daughter, Suri. Now reports that Tom's Church of Scientology is harassing Katie, following her whenever she ventures out. Even Rupert Murdoch got into that, tweeting warnings. The TomKat split has sent the world's media into a spin. Here, Woman's Day Magazine is rushing to get a special issue on the streets by Wednesday. I think this is the biggest sort of celebrity split since Tom and Nicole probably split up 10 years ago. On sale now, these T-shirts let you wear your feelings on your chest. Team Tom or Team Katie ` time to choose. Just ahead ` the surfing siblings from Japan who refused to let the Fukushima nuclear meltdown wipe them out. The coastline near the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor used to be one of the best surfing regions in Japan. But the nuclear meltdown led to many of the region's best board riders going elsewhere, except for two stubborn brothers. The ABC's Mark Willacy has the story. WAVES ROAR Its breaks were famous, but now only the bravest dare ride Fukushima's waves. Brothers Hiroki and Manabu Watanabe are Fukushima born and bred, and they're the region's top professional surfers. TRANSLATOR: This area was legendary for its waves. Many surfers came here before the nuclear disaster. The radiation from the nuclear meltdown's did what no shark could ever do ` force the Watanabe brothers from the water. And they only jumped back on their boards a couple of months ago. The contamination of this coastline almost wiped out their sport here, and it's sparked some serious surf rage against the operator of the nuclear plant. TRANSLATOR: My message to TEPCO is, seriously, don't mess with us. Tell us the truth. That's what we want. The Watanabe brothers are the only pro surfers left in Fukushima. Fearing radiation, all the others have relocated to other parts of Japan. But these surfing siblings say they'll stay here to help the sport recover. So is it safe to go back into the water? The Watanabe brothers think it is, and they'd like to see some of Australia's best board riders crowding Fukushima's famous right-handers. TRANSLATOR: I had an Aussie surfer friend here before the disaster. So I'd love some Australians to come back and support Fukushima's recovery. Before the nuclear disaster, Fukushima's 20 beaches teemed with surfers. 15 months on, its legendary breaks are slowly coming to life again, thanks to two local pros who refused to let the meltdowns wipe them out. Now let's take a look at tomorrow's weather. For weather, see onenews.co.NZ That's it from us here on Tonight. Thanks for watching. Goodnight. Captions by Diana Beeby and John Ling. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright TVNZ Access Services 2012